Has Online Poker Finally Reached its Peak?
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- March 31st, 2009 by Ruff Poker
It all started with the passing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. This new law forbid the transfer of funds from a financial institution to an Internet gambling site and since the online world has been largely credited to be the “single biggest factor in addition to the World Poker Tour to [...]
2009 Asian Poker Tour at Macau
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- March 25th, 2009 by Ruff Poker
The Asian Poker Tour (APT) will be held at Galaxy StarWorld Hotel at Macau on the 12th of August. CEO of Asian Poker Tour, Chris Parker, will be there to lead the event.
“The Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival will feature a side event schedule never seen in Asia before, including several new formats that will [...]
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Brencher to Lead the Bay 101 Shooting Star Event
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- March 24th, 2009 by Ruff Poker
Six people will battle for the title of World Poker Tour in San Jose, California. The final table is set for Steve Brecher, Tony Behari, Chris Moore, Kathy Liebert, Thao Le and Chau Vu.
As Brecher leads the table with 2.06 million chips, he is also the perceived favorite of the tournament. His sixth place win [...]
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Poker Columnist Experiences First Loss in Celebrity Apprentice
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- March 23rd, 2009 by Ruff Poker
Annie Duke, a poker news daily columnist, was in chopping block nearly escaped Donald Trump’s “FIRED” during the fourth episode of NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice.
The task was to launch the new videophone from CAN and Team Athena (Women) where Duke belongs, they chose Claudia Jordan to be the project manager. Jordan was one of the models [...]
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Star Studded Dream Team Poker at Ceasars Palace
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- March 23rd, 2009 by Ruff Poker
On March 27th of this year, the Ceasar Palace at Las Vegas will be again flooded with famous and big names in the poker industry. Jim Pedulla, the director, is proud to host this delightful event in World Series Tournament.
The said Dream Team Poker Event will be attended by Danish poker pro Peter Eastgate, the [...]
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The PitBoss: Guarding the Future of Online Betting
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- March 20th, 2009 by Ruff Poker
At last, Shmuel Konfoty confirmed that online deception would reduce or would put to an end upon the completion of PitBoss, the anti-online cheating software developed by CogniSafe Ltd.
The unique aspect about PitBoss is; it’s an elaborate instrument packed with mathematical frames of all games put into one. This software has the ability to detect [...]
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Chartier Outlasted Nixon at World Series of Poker
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- March 19th, 2009 by Ruff Poker
Twenty-three year old Samuel Chartier was the last man standing in the recent concluded World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit Event held at Caesars Atlantic City. This poker pro from Montreal outlasted John Nixon of Toronto.
David Zeitin, Chris Klodnicki, Jason Young, Matt Brady, Alex Bolotin, Michael Michnik and Frank Vizza were the other seven players [...]
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Poker Charity Helps TASER
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- March 18th, 2009 by Ruff Poker
Almost 200 lives are lost during their duty and it was truly an honor to have the fourth and annual Hold’em for Heroes which earned over $500,000 for the TASER Foundation in 2008.
The rules were simple. Players are only allowed to give fifty dollars for the buy-in and add-ons during the three-day-tournament and the top [...]
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Last-Minute Luck Sides with Naujoks
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- March 17th, 2009 by Ruff Poker
Sandra Naujoks, 27, became the second woman (Vicky Coren being the first in 2006 at EPT London) to win an EPT title after cruising her way to 667 players at EPT Dortmund and brought home $1,185,000 in US dollars.
During final minutes with Holger Kanisch, Naujoks managed to remain calm after Kanisch decided to raise the [...]
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Poker Tournament Raises $111,000 for a Cause
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- March 17th, 2009 by Ruff Poker
Sponsored by Curtis & Co. Watches, a charity poker tournament was held for the first time at Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada. Jennifer Harman of Full Tilt advocated the said tournament and all funds raised would be donated to National Kidney Foundation.
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